We got ours from a larger farm nearby a few years ago - they had purchased a soy based fertilizer and the distributor didn’t have any return/recycle incentives so the farmer was selling them on the cheap. I think we found the guy through the farm & garden craigslist section but I can’t really speak to how reliable that is anymore. If you’ve got a winter farmers market around you it might be worth asking around there (I’m loathe to suggest fb marketplace but if you’re already there that might be convenient as well)

We have solar panels and a backup battery for when the grid goes down. Our panels generate more than we generally use (we overbuilt on purpose) but we could run almost indefinitely as long as the panels are clear. There are two totes hooked up to a gutter on the back of our garage which provide 550 gallons of water storage that we use to water gardens and top up our duck pond. The ducks and chickens do most of our insect maintenance in the gardens.

I’m working on additional shelving in our cellar in order to be able to store more of our canning from the gardens; most of the material is reclaimed pallet wood from a nearby business. We’ve also got two slightly damaged solar panels that I’d like to use to circulate the water in the duck pond - pump and lift to flow through some uphill garden space back down to the pond after it’s been filtered by the plants - and to provide some power to the bird coop for water heaters and maybe a light source.

That’s what I’ve used them for as well =D

Happy planning / planting!

You can check out the toolkit over at Permapeople.org, though I’m unsure exactly how open the codebase is. I do know they’re hoping to make it community run in the future, and that the devs share pretty much whatever is asked of them.

Less in the spirit of your question, but something I’ve used relatively extensively is the mymaps.google tool. Here’s hoping someone with some better answers than me comes along (and I remember to check back) to give additional alternatives

Last year a hurricane came up the coast all the way to Maine rather than being pushed out to sea, and a number of the coastal towns around us saw millions of dollars worth of damage despite how much the storm had weakened over cooler waters. A few days later I was able to get over to my grandmother’s old house to check the damage for my aunt and could barely believe the devastation - piles of sand, seaweed, jersey barriers crammed against each other all akimbo, and mountains of flood damaged property waiting to be hauled away. All just from the storm surge.

Why a few days later, you ask?

I know grifters and charlatans infest every industry, but it feels especially bad when they’re taking advantage of folks who are trying to do positive things. It’s a shame these state attorneys general aren’t chomping at the bit to combat these scams.

For our New England peeps: we’ve had a really good experience with ReVision Energy. They’ve linked us to the state webpages with explanations of tax incentives and other programs that impact our plans, are a worker-owned co-op, and have been pleasant to work with. When we had some panels that weren’t producing what they should, they warrantied them but ended up allowing us to keep two panels for our own separate solar plans and the techs even sent us links to resources for those projects.

I’ve been pretty happy with HedgeCam2 for still photos - good shots without mucking about in settings but there are tons of settings you can fiddle with

No but I have experience with my Sudo: